GENERAL INDEX. 



817 



Date, the, 655 



propagation of, 655 

 Destructive insects, 160 

 Dewberry, the, 356 

 Dibble, the, 152 

 Dieback, 638 

 Diseases of fruits, 211 



anthracnose, 234 



black knot, 230 



black rot, 217 



brown rot, 217 



fire-blight, 218 



leaf-blight, 220 



mildew, 233 



peach, curl of the leaf, 227 



pear scab, 222 



ripe rot, 216 



root galls, 240 



rust, 212 



scab, 214 



yellows of peach, 224 

 Distances for planting, 75 

 Dwarf cherries, 364 



stocks for, 364 



nets for, 365 

 Dwarf pear-trees, 493 



pruning, 496 



varieties of, 494 . 



Eleagnus longipes, 610 

 Enclosures, varieties of, 54 

 Espalier training, for peach, 

 470 



Fertilizers for orchards, 88 

 Fig, the, 658 



budding the, 661 



caprification of, 662 



cultivation of, 662 



drying the, 663 



grafting the, 661 



index of varieties, 736 



propagation of, 660 



pruning the, 662 

 52 



Fig, soil for, 660 



varieties of, 663 

 Flea-beetle, grape-vine, 197 

 Flowers, fertile, 14 



parts of, 13 



pistillate, 14 



staminate, 14 



sterile, 14 



Forbidden fruit. See Shaddock. 

 Form of trees, giving desired, by 



pruning, 95 

 Frost, destroys peach crop, 465 



effect on the orange, 633 

 Fruit, houses for storing, 135 



how to obtain quickly, 144 



keeping, 133 



terms used in describing, 260 



to supply a family, 140 

 Fruit-boxes, piling, 137 



storing, 137 



Fruitfulness, pruning as affect- 

 ing, 94 



Fruit-garden, plan of, 141 

 Fruit-pickers, 114 

 Fruit-pilferers, 54 

 Fruit-room, plans for, 135 

 Fruit-tree ladders, 116 



Garden reel, 116 



spray pump, 118 



syringes, 118 

 Gathering fruit, 123 

 Germination, 1 



air in, 2 



how produced, 2 



moisture in, 2 



requisites for, 1 

 Girdled trees, to repair, 47 

 Gooseberry, the, 393 



diseases of, 237 



Index of varieties, 736 



varieties of, 393 



I., European, 393 

 II., American, 395 



